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Genesis Lynea never thought she’d be on the stage at London’s West End. You can catch her as a football player in Bend It Like Beckham, a new musical based on the hit 2002 film. It’s a big move for the 25-year-old Bermudian, a relative newcomer to th...

The photography bug bit Andreas Detzer hard and quick. “I’d never had any interest in photography and then, in 2011, I was out on a yacht with some friends,” he said. “I snapped a casual photo through double glass of some houses across the water.” Th...

The winter tourism slump came as a shock to The Reefs’ executive chef Douglas Sisk. Like magic, dinner guests disappeared. “I arrived in May 2014 and we’d been making about 600 meals daily for hotel guests plus we were catering for lots of events,”...

Dancer Rikkai Scott knew he had all the right moves for an audition in Amsterdam. Unfortunately, he did not have money to travel. The 25-year-old was just finishing up a dance degree at the London Contemporary Dance School in the UK. “Students genera...

Ginny Ferson’s knees were knocking. A busy ambassador had asked her to fill in for him at a meeting and it was only once she got there she discovered she had to make a speech. It was 1994 and she was second secretary at the Luxembourg British Embass...

The bank officer had never handled a loan for a salad bowl before. Historian John Cox was insistent that he had to have it. “It was an 18th-century English salad bowl,” he said. “It cost me $3,500 and it took me a year to pay off. That was 1987. It w...

If you have a dear old dad, count yourself lucky. During an informal poll on the streets of Hamilton, The Royal Gazette struggled to find people who were happy with their fathers. One person described their dad as “an old fart”. A young girl we appr...

Astronaut Scott Carpenter survived orbiting the earth but was almost done in by Bermuda’s roads. He was visiting Bermuda in 1964 as part of a revolutionary ocean experiment by the US Navy. Unfortunately for him, he wiped out on his moped and the inju...

Kalaeb Tannock was certain he’d join the family business after high school. He was bored with his studies and saw plumbing as his only real career prospect. And then he learnt about Raleigh International. The global organisation helps empower youth w...

The talk of the Island this weekend? Jason “D’General” Sukdeo and his four-day party. It kicked off with a massive turnout on Front Street on Friday when soca bands played before a crowd of about 5,000. The 35-year-old DJ, who got his nickname becaus...